Nutcracker: First pass of LSP file

[smeighan]

Just Kidding.

well sort of. You may know that I have not yet used any of the three sequencers (Vixen,LSP or LOR). So to test LOR, I launched LOR and the lms file imported with no issues. Only later did I realize that i had launched LSP.

So, I assume LSP can import an lms file. So go ahead and try the lms files i am creating in LSP.

lol, i guess this shows i am an idiot...

[taybrynn]

I have all three if you need help testing

[smeighan]

I have all three if you need help testing

you could try the lms file i am creating in both lor and lsp and see if they look ok.

thanks

[taybrynn]

Are those posted somewhere or do I need to log onto your site and generate myself?  I haven't yet generated anything on your site, but I'm getting closer to trying.

[smeighan]

Are those posted somewhere or do I need to log onto your site and generate myself?  I haven't yet generated anything on your site, but I'm getting closer to trying.

You have to genberate an effect then the links show up for vixen, lor lms and lor lcb

You can just make up a hypothetical tree, like 50 strings with 50 pixels. Once you create a target model, you can then try all of the effects out.

[taybrynn]

Ok good ... thats what I was thinking.  Very innovate way to do this. 

[smeighan]

I have made some major changes to the the LOR lms file output. The butterfly animation now loads into LOR with no issues.

Here is what it looks like inside the LOR sequencer



and here is what it looks like inside Nutcracker




Can someone who has LSP try importing a lms file?

Here is the one i made
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it is 20 mbytes in size. It should be 10 seconds in duration

[urthegman]

Hello Sean, I was able to import the sequence using LSP Version 2.0.11226.2226 which is not the most recent build of Version 2 of the software, I am pretty sure there have been two newer builds. The Hp Pavillion laptop I tried it on is two years old and has an AMD vision quad core processor so it's not the best laptop out there but good enough to do my sequencing on. I imported the lms file  and it went through smoothly with the exception of the effect optimization which took about 15-20 minutes. It looks amazing and runs smoothly, I just wonder if it would load quicker on a better computer, hopefully we will get some more feedback to see if that is the case. I know you have been thanked a million times for doing this, but I just wanted to say it again, so thanks!   

[smeighan]

Sean, i gave this file a go and imported the LMS file into LSP V2, the file loaded without any errors.. The issue is that the controllers and channels imported as individual channels and not as RGB channels as one would expect and as you would have normally set up with RGB lighting so this may be something that needs looking into. Another issue is that the controllers missed the first 3 channels so the channel start is channel 4. One other note and this may be delibrate to save time for this example is that each controllers channel number are exactly the same. The controllers are based on LOR controllers which have controller numbers as where E1.31 and DMX use channel numbers and universes to map out the controllers not a biggie as this can be set up later manually by the user to his channel range, the issue is these are set in LSP as a light controller and not an RGB controller and if changing the controller back to an RGB controller turns all the sequenced channels white thus making the imported effect all white.
Anyway great work Sean its really coming along and growing into one awsome program. Thanks for the effort.

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Hi,
missing the first pixel is because i do all animations locgically from the top of the tree (Nutcracker Pixel#1). When people build their tree targets they give me dimensions that dont work out evenly.

Let me give a simple example. If a have a 50 pixel string , folded in half. I have 25 pixels per strand. Assume you said 3" spacing between pixels. If you give me a height for your tree that doesnt add up to having a 75" hypotenuse. I will come to the bottom of the tree without having reached your last pixel. This is happening alot in peoples target models. When that happens i will not reach pixel #1 and pixle #50 while i am creating the animation.

I am going to maybe change how the target model works so that i ignore your height and just use pixels and the hypotenuse.

Anyways, that is why you see some pixels missing.

ill work on gettng it fixed.

I also wish i could do more for LSP.

[sebjsan]

This is what i get

[urthegman]

Sebastian, How long did it take to load?

[sebjsan]

Not long same as other LOR imports. I have version 2.0.11271.743 on a 5 year old Dell E6500 Laptop with Core 2 Duo processor

[smeighan]

Not long same as other LOR imports. I have version 2.0.11271.743 on a 5 year old Dell E6500 Laptop with Core 2 Duo processor

When i loaded the 20 mbyte file in LOR it took 8 seconds
When i load the same file into LSP it took 37 seconds.

I have an HP desktop computer
Windows Experience Index of rating of 5.9 (right click computer, properties to see your number)

Processor: Intel i7 4 core, 8 threads at 2.67hz
Windows 7, 64 bit
Memory: 12gigs

Fast eddy made the point that when loading into LSP it has to first convert the lms file into msq. Then it loads the msq file.

Here is a video of me using LOR and LSP to load this sequence. Note: I have NEVER used vixen,lsp or LOR yet so there could be an operator error here someplace.

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[caretaker]

I tired loading it into LSP 2.0.11338.1054  it took about 37 seconds (had to select and audio file) and the result was the same as posted by Sebastian as far as appearence.  Running on AMD Phenom II X4 840 with 8 gigs memory with Windows 7 64bit

[dandyman]

Same here... looked like Sebastian's import...